Reboot message fonctionality

[Francois Pepin]

I am actually testing your product and I like it so far.
I was wondering if it was possible to send a message to the user so that they can reboot on their own time.
Ideally I would want the message to offer reboot and the user not be able to close the window, only minimize.
The PDC is managed by the main office and I am not allowed to use GPOs… hence the reason why I am considering this product.
Ty

[doug]

You can send a message to users that will pop up on their screens:

notify-users-of-upcoming-reboot-or-other-patching-activity
inform-users-before-applying-updates-and-rebooting

However, the popup message will not offer an option to reboot directly from the popup. The user would have to use the normal reboot method for the OS. The user will also be able to close the message.

One option would be that you can continue to pop the notification to the end user in a loop, at your desired time interval, until they perform the reboot. To do that you would create a job queue something like this:

1. label:YourCustomNameGoesHere
2. Send custom message to end user
3. Wait 60 minutes
4. If ‘Get pending reboot status’ returns TRUE, goto label:YourCustomNameGoesHere

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